Questions, answered.

A way to sort lifts with people you already know. You tell your group where you’re going, they see it, and the first one who can drive says yes. That is the whole app — no feed, no strangers, no map of drivers nearby.

Anyone who keeps doing the same journey as someone they know. The school run, the drive to training, the office when you both live on the same side of town. If you’d happily text the person, KoMee! is for you. If you wouldn’t, it isn’t — there’s no way to ride with someone outside your groups.

A phone, and at least one other person. Sign in with Apple, or with your email and a six-digit code — there’s no password to invent. Then either start a group and invite people, or tap an invite someone sent you.

KoMee! is in open beta on iPhone and Android. Rough edges expected — tell us what breaks.

Either. Ask, and everyone in the group gets one ping — the first yes wins it, and that yes is the deal. Or offer: you’re driving to the match with three free seats, and people take them until they’re gone. Once you’re moving it’s the same trip either way.

Nobody has a permanent role. You can be the driver on Tuesday and the passenger on Thursday, and the app never asks you to pick one.

Everyone else in that group gets one push. The first person to say yes has it — there’s nothing to confirm afterwards, no accepting, no haggling. Anyone who taps a second later sees it’s already taken.

You ask once. You don’t chase, and nobody has to feel bad for ignoring it.

Then nothing happens, and you make other plans. There’s no bidding, no reminder nagging the group, and no stranger stepping in to fill the gap. KoMee! would rather tell you plainly that nobody’s driving than find you someone you don’t know.

You pick when you set the ride up: at your door, at the driver’s place, or a pin you drop somewhere in between. Directions only show up for whoever is actually doing the travelling.

Worth knowing: if you use home as your pickup, the people in that group see your home address. The app says so when you join a group, and it’s why a dropped pin exists as an option.

There’s a live map for the trip, and a live ETA on your lock screen that updates as the car moves. No “almost there” texts, and no need to ask.

A trip you planned for later goes live about ten minutes before it starts. A “Now” trip is live the moment someone claims it.

By arriving. Get within a hundred metres of where you were going and the trip finishes itself — nobody has to remember to press done. Messages sent during the trip are deleted at the same moment.

That’s what a scheduled carpool is for. Set the destination, the days and the times once. Each evening KoMee! settles tomorrow — who drives, who rides — and tells everyone. You don’t rebuild the rota every Sunday night.

One standing plan per group. The person who sets it up fixes the destination, the weekdays and the times; everyone else picks only their own days, direction and seats. Nothing gets voted on.

It goes round in turn. Each evening — usually somewhere between 8 and 10pm — the app works out tomorrow and asks whoever’s next in the rota. Passengers aren’t asked anything; they’re just told the answer once it’s settled.

You only ever get handed a driving turn on days you’re riding both ways. You can’t be given a run home you were never on.

Say so, and it moves to the next person. If you don’t answer within half an hour it moves on anyway, and saying nothing doesn’t count against you — only actually passing does. After that it goes out to everyone who could drive, and the first to take it has it.

Each leg locks two hours before it leaves. After that you can cancel, but not reshuffle.

Mark yourself out for the day and your seat is freed — the driver is told to skip your stop. For a holiday, set a date range and the whole stretch is skipped. Driving turns pass over you while you’re away without counting as a turn you missed.

Everyone is told, that evening. “No driver tomorrow” is an answer, not a silence — the day stays on the schedule with that written on it, so nobody is standing outside at eight wondering whether a car is coming.

A group is the fence around everything. Your office lot, the team parents, five friends — you decide. Every ride you can see belongs to a group you’re in, you get in by invite, and someone has to approve you. Nobody finds you by browsing.

You can be in as many as you like, and they don’t mix. The school group never sees the work group’s rides.

You share an eight-character code, or the link that carries it. On a phone that already has KoMee!, the link opens the app straight away. Without it, the link lands on a page with the store button and the code in plain sight, so it can be typed in after installing. On a laptop you get a QR to scan instead.

Send it however you like — message, email, the group chat you’re already in. In an open group anyone can pass the code on; in a closed one only admins can.

No. The code gets them as far as the door — an admin still has to let them in. Until that happens they’re pending, and a pending member sees nothing at all: not the rides, not the other members, not even who else is waiting.

If no admin ever taps approve, nothing ever happens. That’s the point — it’s what stops a forwarded link from working like a password. It works the same way in every group, open or closed.

Whoever made the group is its first admin. Admins can also remove people.

Their future seats are freed and their stops dropped, so nobody drives to a door that isn’t expecting them. The address they’d saved for that group is wiped — come back later and you pick it again.

A group can never end up with no admin. If the last one leaves, the longest-standing member left becomes admin automatically.

Your saved places, whether you drive or only ride, which days you’re in, and how loudly we get to ping you. Quiet hours stop the late ones. Holiday mode stops all of them while you’re away.

Also in there: your home and work addresses, which maps app directions open in, whether distances show in kilometres or miles, and how many seats you usually have going spare.

Set quiet hours — say 10pm to 7am — and nothing arrives in that window. It’s worked out on our side in your timezone, so it holds even when your phone is off or you’ve travelled.

Per group, you can also say “only tell me on days I actually ride”. Then it stays quiet on your days off but still lets you ask for a lift when you need one.

Holiday mode. Give it the dates and the pings stop for that stretch, then start again on their own. Your groups and your schedules are all still there when you get back.

People in the same group, and nobody else. There’s no feed, no discovery, no “rides near me”. Someone still waiting to be approved sees nothing. Someone outside the group doesn’t get a “no” — the rides simply don’t exist for them, because that’s decided in the database rather than by the app asking nicely.

Inside a group it narrows again. Everyone in the group sees a ride that’s been posted there. Only the people actually on that trip — the driver and their passengers — see each other move on the map, or can message each other.

Only during a trip you started or joined, and only with the other people on that trip. Not the rest of the group. It starts when the trip does and stops when it ends.

KoMee! never asks for the “always” location permission — the standing kind that lets an app check on you whenever it likes. It asks for “while using”, and opens a background window for the length of a trip so the driver’s pin keeps moving with the screen off. There’s no setting anywhere that could quietly turn that into something wider, because the permission it would need is never requested at all.

You can also switch your own pin off in settings. One thing worth knowing: that’s read when a trip starts, so turning it off mid-trip applies from your next one. The app tells you so at the time.

No, and there’s no version of the app that could. Outside a trip there is nothing running, nothing reporting, and no permission granted that would allow it.

It’s also not a “find my friends”. You can’t look up where someone is. The only time you see anyone move is while you’re on a trip together.

Saved: the pins you typed or dropped — where you’re leaving from, where you’re heading, where you’re meeting. Your saved places, your groups, and the rides you’ve taken in them.

Never saved: a trail. There’s no record of where you’ve been over time, no breadcrumb, no “last seen” that ticks. The live map during a trip is a broadcast, not a recording — when the trip ends it’s gone, with no copy kept anywhere.

Also never saved: your phone number, because there’s no field for one. No contacts, no microphone, no camera, no photos, no advertising identifiers, no third-party analytics. Messages inside a trip are deleted the moment the trip ends.

A pin says “meet me at the station at eight”. A trail says where you sleep and where you work. KoMee! needs the first and has no use for the second, so it never writes it down.

A finished trip keeps its pins for thirty days, so you can still answer “who drove me on the 3rd, and where did they pick me up?”. After that they’re wiped, along with the place names and the other person’s identity, leaving a stub that only knows a trip happened.

A cancelled trip is scrubbed straight away. A trip that never happened has no route worth reviewing.

A short, named list: Apple, for sign-in, push and maps. Supabase, which hosts the database in the EU. Vercel, which hosts this website. Nobody else — no advertisers, no data brokers, no analytics companies. Each one is under a data processing agreement.

Nothing is sold, and nothing is used to train anything. The full detail is on the privacy page.

Delete your account from inside the app. You’re signed out everywhere and removed from your groups immediately. Your places and trip history are held for thirty days in case you change your mind — sign back in within that window and it all comes back. After thirty days it’s permanently deleted.

Rides you shared with other people stay on their side of the story, with your name taken off.

Nothing. KoMee! is free in beta, and the core of it — asking, offering, groups, the live map — stays free for good. A paid subscription will come along in time. Nothing you rely on today starts asking for a card.

The part you use every day, yes. When a paid tier does arrive it sits on top, and we’ll say what’s in it well before it lands — no quiet switch, no morning where the app you’ve been using suddenly wants money.

And if anyone ever pays and then stops: nothing gets deleted. Your groups, your rides and your history stay exactly where they are.

No, and you can’t. There’s no payment in KoMee! at all — no fares, no splitting, no euro sign anywhere in the app. Charging people for a lift isn’t allowed under the terms either, through the app or outside it.

It’s a lift between people who know each other. Sort the coffee between yourselves.